Jane Hirshfield: The Fullness of Things

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January 12, 2022 a project of ServiceSpace On a branch floating downriver a cricket, singing. - Issa - Jane Hirshfield: The Fullness of Things "The esteemed writer Jane Hirshfield has been a Zen monk and a visiting artist among neuroscientists. She has said this: 'It's my nature to question, to look at the opposite side. I believe that the best writing also does this... It tells us that where there is sorrow, there will be joy; where there is joy, there will be sorrow... The acknowledgement of the fully complex scope of being is why good art thrills...Acknowledging the fullness of things,' she insists, 'is our human task.' And that's the ground Krista Tippett meanders with Jane Hirshfield in this conversation: the fullness of things -- through the interplay of Zen and science, poetry and ecology -- in her life and writing." { read more } Be The Change For more inspiration, check out Jane Hirshfield's essay, "Living By Questions." { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Big Picture Competition: Celebrating Earth's Diversity The Monkey and the River Beyond Overwhelm into Refuge Humanity's Wake Up Call The Gentle Art of Blessing Live a Life Worth Living Seven Lessons Learned from Leaves Advice from 100-Year-Olds DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 242,701 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More